Archive for November, 2009
November 26th, 2009 | 
Author: Things to do in Moscow’s artist’s block
Arbat Street is a 1.25km pedestrian mall and is one of Moscow’s most famous streets. It’s an art market, with instant portrait painters, craftsmen, jugglers, buskers and little cafés offering nice treats.
Arbat Street, with poet Pushkin’s house
Arbat St and little picture exhibits
There were a number of performers who were handing out discount coupons for circuses and music shows and other gigs.
Wall of peace
This wall at the east end of the street consists of individually painted tiles on the theme of international friendship. A section of it is covered in spent chewing gum, forming an interesting but sticky mosaic.
Café. I can’t quite read cursive Cyrillic alphabet
шоколадный торт и кофе с молоком
Sports Bar (near Arbatskaya)
At night, I went to a sports bar to have some local beer and watch a football (called soccer in USA) game between Moscow and St. Petersburg (I think). I was meeting someone I found on couchsurfing, and she told me it was important to get out of the place before the match ended. The place was getting louder as the match was drawing to an end. I did encounter drunk football fans in the subway later on. 
So as you can see, I had fun on Arbat street and it definitely deserves more attention that I gave it!
Source: Priyank
“Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe,”
Source: Bible Gateway
An introduction to the study of theology and an overview of the systems, terms, and people of the discipline.
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Drawing from the best in discipleship literature as well as from his own extensive disciple making experience with The Navigators, Bill Hull pulls together all relevant topics on Discipleship in one comprehensive volume.
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Detect and develop the "big idea" of each passage and to allow the text itself to suggest creative teaching methods.
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Kiyangkongrejo is a village in the district Kutoarjo, Purworejo, Central Java, Indonesia. Located about 5 kilometers from the City Kutoarjo.
To visit this village is easy enough because the paved road through pretty good and public transportation routes pass-Ketawang Kutoarjo. This route connects the Kutoarjo city to the Ketawang Beach.
The legend of this village was founded by a Chinese scholar, Ki Angkong, which eventually became the village name.
Some artifacts such as former tionghoa tomb, the stone bearing the letters tionghoa, and the ancient Javanese language script ever discovered in this village. Unfortunately there is no concern for these artifacts, so a few lost and damaged. Last findings about the year 1988, is a flat stone with two seat.
From ancient times this village was a center of Islamic activities such as has existed two Islamic study center (pondok pesantren). Until the year 2007, this village has 3 large mosque to support the activities of worship.
Source: turuawan
see more detail at link: http://wahyuhandoko.blogspot.com/2009/11/berharap-merasa-hilang-di-vietnam.html
Source: turuawan
Simply put, setting is the location of the events of a story. It also serves as more than a backdrop. “The setting is important to our understanding of character type and of what to expect, as well as to the emotional value that arises from the conflict. As we need to know a character’s gender, race, and age, we need to know in what atmosphere she or he operates to understand the significance of the action.”1
Source: Heather Goodman
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This Sunday, Sojourn’s BC sermon series through the Old Testament will continue in the book of Daniel. We urge you to read through this book with us. It’s 12 chapters long, so over the next week and a half, you could read the whole thing in just a chapter or two a day. The daily devotional reading will hit Daniel this Sunday, but don’t wait until then. Just jump in and you can go back to the devotional readings when they post if you so desire. ‘Tis better to read than to wait. Here are some reflections on this past week’s sermon from the book of Daniel.
Reflecting on pastor Mike Cosper’s sermon on Daniel 2, The Dream, from this past Sunday (available by clicking here), I can’t stop thinking about that rock that crushed the feet of the dream statue and brought the whole thing crashing down. Luke 20:18 really hit home – everyone who falls on that stone will be smashed to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed. What a powerful picture of reality: the Kingdom of God not only smashes idols, it requires them to be so. ‘You better fall on the rock or the rock’s gonna fall on you.’
Of course, our idols are sneaky and hard to spot, especially if we’re good church people. I doubt anyone in your church has a shrine hidden in a closet where they pray to a stone statue of an aardvark. But I’m certain that everyone in your church has idols in their heart. As pastor Mike said, we want to look good, to feel good, to be able to buy good things, and we want them so badly that appearance, health, comfort and wealth become idols, the things we construct our lives around pursuing. I believe it was Paul Tripp who said the surest way to know if something is an idol in your life is how you react when it’s taken from you. By that definition, we all have idols. They’re the things we get violent about keeping around.
You have to be willing to have your idols smashed. You have to be willing to see your desire for financial comfort smashed. Your desire for good health, for beauty, for admiration: you must be willing to smash them all. But, this does not mean that all Christians are called to be poor, sickly, hated, ugly and in constant dismay. That would be an awful gospel to tell people. ‘Come to Jesus, where life is miserable!’
Smashing idols does mean that Christians should not fear being poor, sick, despised, unfashionable or uncomfortable. Smashing idols simply means you are willing for God have control over those desirous aspects of your life rather that you having to constantly fight to fulfill them yourself. And that’s a great gospel to have. ‘Come to Jesus where life is in the hands of the God of the universe and you don’t have to constantly perform well enough to be happy.’ In that gospel, you open a Pandora’s box of promise – promise of a changed heart that is satisfied with God instead of constantly dissatisfied with your weight, your bank account, your job-title, etc. Your life of faith is about seeking first God’s Kingdom and letting him add those desirous things to you as he sees fit to best strengthen your faith, to produce the best fruit in your life that can be produced. It’s not suffocatingly about you, rather your life of faith is all about the joy of surrender. You know you’re getting somewhere in the fight against your idols when you can actually pray for demolition and for it to come soon.
Smashing what strangles you leaves room for God to restore you to life through Jesus Christ. Which sure beats the alternative of being smashed in the end by the rock that could have saved you.
At Sojourn, we are all about you getting in the Word - it’s God’s message for you, as you are, where you are. Right now we’re working through the Old Testament as a church body and it’s a big undertaking that can seem pretty intimidating. But we want to assure you that nobody has to be a scholar to understand the Bible. God didn’t just speak to the brainiacs - he spoke to all of us. Still, a little help along the way is good. That’s why Sojourn has a daily Bible reading plan and devotional which can be found online here. For more on the daily devotional and how you can use it to help you get in the word, click here.
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“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
Source: Bible Gateway